Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most fantastic party we've ever had," said Film Producer Kevin McClory, after opening his 500-acre Irish estate outside Dublin to performers from Duffy's Circus and a parade of Hollywood stars. Well, promotion might be a better word for it, but it certainly was eminently successful. With 980 spectators paying $40 and more for seats, Performers Shirley MacLaine, Sean Cannery, Burgess Meredith and Eric Clapton donned clown costumes and joined with Duffy's jugglers, acrobats and tumblers-all to raise money for a pair of children's charities: the Central Remedial Clinic...
...indignant about it, or enthusiastic either. There is no clear compliment the movie can be paid without an immediate qualification: it is smooth but forgettable, bearable but brainless. The film has nothing novel to say and nothing to offer except Robert Redford. But the way things work in Hollywood these days, Redford is enough...
Three Days of the Condor should be considered not so much as a movie as what Hollywood calls a project. Based on a least-selling novel called Six Days of the Condor, by James Grady, such a project is conceived and comes into being only because Redford agrees to show up in it. Redford is a good, shrewd, sometimes very funny actor, but the fact that movies like Three Days of the Condor are not really worth making at all is a thought that occurs to no one. Neither Redford, Director Sydney Pollack (The Way We Were...
Some teen-agers now simply announce that they are homosexuals while they are still in high school and wonder why the older generation is still in the closet. In Hollywood, a few homosexuals who are too young to drive are even dropped off at gay dances by their parents...
...exception to the general air of unctuous duplicity is an outsider, a Hollywood choreographer brought in to stage the song-and-dance numbers. Appealingly played by real-life Choreographer Michael Kidd, he treats his charges roughly, without cant, but with genuine, humorously phrased care for their welfare. He almost cons the viewer into believing that the film actually has a heart ticking away fitfully some where near its sneer-meter...